What they said on Sports Center was that San Fran had wanted to fire him for a while but were waiting until they were officially eliminated from a playoff spot (which happened yesterday amazingly enough). That way no one could say that they missed the playoffs because they fired the coach in the middle of the season. FWIW.

This analysis of why Singletary failed includes a hilarious anecdote about Harbaugh falling asleep "after working for several days without sleep" and having his head fall forward and hit the computer keyboard, resulting in 8000 pages worth of the same letter of the alphabet.

This was my best Christmas present this year sadly. Singletary is a great guy, just a complete fool as a head coach. I have been a 49ers fan for 25 years now. I was happy to see him go. I am hoping for Eddie D to help his nephew Jed select a winner at GM and HC.